ita_! - in my Outlook there's a "track" button that shows who's responded and how they responded. When I discovered that is when I started accepting without sending a response.

When I discovered that is when I started accepting without sending a response.

You discovered that you could make someone go to extra trouble to know if you're on board and that was enough to make you decide that you would ?

I'm being snarky, but I kind of don't get it.

I don't usually send a response. Most of my invites are about one of a few project meetings that will be happening at that day/time whether or not I'll be there. The invite is more of a reminder, honestly; those meetings have a pretty set schedule and the only thing that changes occasionally is the location.

If it's a one-off meeting, or something that might actually be rescheduled if I can't make it, then I send one.

Mine probably comes from when the Engineering Director decided that I was his secretary and starting making me schedule his meetings. So the meeting responses - for the entire Engineering Department - would come to me (and I Really Didn't Care). I got VERY sick of meeting responses. So even for my own meetings, I found I would rather just open up the Track page, see that this one was tentative, that one declined, and these others hadn't responded at all.

eta: If I have a meeting where my Particular Presence matters, I will usually respond, but most of mine are either all-hands, or every Monday at 10, etc., where my individual presence is not required.

OK, say someone has a dog and the person is gone long enough that the dog often relieves itself in the apartment. So the person comes home and slams doors and yells at the dog for pissing and/or shitting in the apartment--how bad is that? I mean, there must be some medical or behavioral issue with the dog, or else the person is just gone too long, right? AFAIK the person isn't doing anything to address the issue besides yelling at the dog. How cruel is this? (Once when he was yelling at the dog, I heard some noise and the dog made a yelp of fear and/or pain.)

What should I do? (The guy lives below my apartment.) I have to leave the guy a note anyway, asking him not to slam doors and yell at 5:45 AM (he apparently works nights)--should I bring up his treatment of his dog as well?

When I discovered that is when I started accepting without sending a response.

Mine doesn't show people who didn't show a response, though. That's my problem. I can tell if your space in your calendar has become occupied, but I can't tell if it's by my meeting.

I'm looking at my tracking screen right now--two nones (me and the guy I'm complaining about), and three accepteds. But he accepted. He just didn't send....ta da...a response.

It takes exactly as much effort to send a response as not, and more agita for the meeting organiser if you don't. So why not?

If you can't make it, decline. If you maybe can't make it, respond tentatively--either of those require as much explanation as you deem appropriate to your business situation.

I don't think he argues against correct grammar and punctuation on business signs

He argues against it being important, is how I read that speech.

Unless you get a specific "I need you to be here, will you be?" note from someone, pretty much no one here responds to meeting invites. (God, given the number of meetings I need to attend/ hold, it would be annoying if people did!) They're simply notifications and location reminders.

Don't show and should have? Someone will ding you for it.

But he accepted. He just didn't send....ta da...a response.

But if he accepted, then you know he's coming, right? I'm not following what the response is for, or maybe I'm not understanding the process of "accepting" correctly.

We do our meetings on Outlook and I get an accept or decline response. I don't need anything beyond that. I don't get how you know he accepted at all, if you didn't get that response.

But if he accepted, then you know he's coming, right?

No. That's my entire point. You can accept without sending me a response. So I, as meeting organiser, know nothing about it. All it does is fill in your calendar. Doesn't tell me anything, doesn't fill in the tracking screen. Same number of mouse clicks...FOUR people in the meeting, you're the whole point. Yes, I want to know.